are some of the best trained in the country and they choose to work in these type of, you know, grill environments. >> and it's a group that actually has one of the highest rates in the country. you get the best medical students in the country are going to places like highland. because the types of disease and illness you see there are, you know, almost like third world country-type disease, because people don't go to the hospital, because they don't want to get a bill. they wait very long. they don't have primary care doctors's so they wait a long time. by the time they get to the hospital they're very, very sick. >> right. >> it's a self-selecting group. a bit like a m.a.s.h. unit. a lot of those nurses are some the community. c.j., queen of the waiting room. knows a lot of these people. her friends, her neighbors. >> the film "the waiting room" opens nationwide in the coming weeks. thanks. >>> next on "starting point," cyndi lauper. her iconic hit almost didn't get made. and she didn't even want to sing it. history would have been changed forever, next. ♪ my mother says when you gonna live yo